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Modeled after VCFA’s world-renowned low-residency MFA programs, the International MFA in Creative Writing & Literary Translation brings together the high quality and prestige of VCFA’s graduate education excellence, with the opportunity to engage in creative writing and literary translation in a wholly international context.

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Greene joined Gov. Peter Shumlin, Lt. Gov. and Governor-elect Phil Scott, and Vermont college and university presidents in signing a statement titled “In Support of Diversity, Equity & Inclusiveness.” He also signed an open letter, along with 110 college and university presidents from around the country, asking President-Elect Donald Trump to condemn recent acts of hate.

The Artists Development fund is geared toward emerging writers, visual artists, graphic designers, teachers, musicians, and filmmakers who are looking to further their education with an advanced degree. The Fund will help financially support artists from diverse backgrounds by providing them access to the highest level of graduate arts education.

Interested candidates need only submit (15) Graphic Design images and a current resume or CV by Monday, February 23rd in Slideroom (online application). If your portfolio is selected by our Faculty panel, you’ll be notified right away and asked to finish your application to the program to begin in April 2018.

Sophfronia’s first book will be released in September. Called Unforgivable Love (William Morrow / HarperCollins), the novel is a reimagining of the French classic Les Liaissons Dangereuses, taking place in Harlem in 1947. She wrote the book at VCFA with the guidance of faculty members Ellen Lesser and Bret Lott.

There are lots of colleges in Vermont, but none quite like Vermont College of Fine Arts and its pioneering and rigorous graduate degree programs in writing, writing for young readers, visual art, music composition, graphic design, and film.

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Low-residency programs may well represent the future of graduate education America. In this article, find out the details about VCFA's mode of contemporary graduate education:

The real story behind the low-residency model.

The single most important advantage of low-residency programs--one-on-one mentoring.

How the low-residency model forms life-long artistic practices.

Find out why those who have experienced the enormous power of a Vermont College of Fine Arts graduate education call it "a transformative experience."

Work and go to school at the same time. Study on your own terms, in your own time, with seven- to ten-day, on-campus intensives conveniently scheduled every six months in beautiful Montpelier, Vermont.

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